Tim Piccirillo built an entertainment talent agency, a career as a comedy magician and as a sought-after education market speaker–all while living in a very rural area of Pennsylvania in the US. He currently works with small and medium-sized businesses as a marketing consultant, copywriter and trainer.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had to made difficulties. Back in the early days when I started my business in my 20s my Tourette’s was really bad. I took medication for it but it would incapacitate me so I just had to take medication that sometimes works and sometimes didn’t, that was part of it… they said you can’t do that here. I said yes I can, I said it’s the game marketing I said if you out market and market enough I can do this. I built this talent agency from scratch…” (4 Lines minimum) …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement by Tony RobbinsFavourite Quote:
“Press On: Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent” Calvin Coolidge
Recommended Online Resources:
- Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
- Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
- LinkedIn – is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- Buffer is an intuitive social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive social media results
- Hootsuite is a social media management platform for business. Manage all of your social media profiles including Twitter and Facebook from a single dashboard, schedule tweets and posts, and measure your results with Hootsuite Pro
- Upwork – You can find The Perfect Freelancers For Your Projects! It’s easy and affordable with secure Payments and will help you to increased your productivity
- Fiverr is the world’s largest freelance services marketplace for lean entrepreneurs to focus on growth create a successful business at affordable costs
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“if you have a business or a passion or a cause or whatever it is that you are trying to build, even if it is a non-profit, and you really believe in it don’t give up until you get there… Until you get where you want to be. Because I am thoroughly convinced that failure does not have to be an option. You are going to fail along the way but ultimate failure and building whatever you want is doable, I don’t care what it is. I say now anything is possible. I used to say virtually anything is possible, no pun intended because I am an online guy, but I know anything anything is possible if you have the passion and the drive. In the second piece of advice is this whole game of technology people my age, and 59, you are never too old to learn…” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
More About Tim Piccirillo:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” Colin R. Davis
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tim Piccirillo:
- “the satisfaction for me comes from I know what it’s like to build a business and I know the feeling… To me Neil business is a game to be one, money is a scorecard ”
- “learn digital marketing, learn how things work online”
- “I learn from the past I learn from my mistakes”
- “figure out exactly what you want, figure out the price that you are going to have to pay to get what you want, and then be willing to pay that price”
- “success formula: seven steps. 1) know your outcome 2) expect to get it 3) commit to that goal 5) take massive action on that goal 6) pay attention to what’s working what’s not working 6) change your approach 7) persistence”
- “content marketing is a long-term strategy that can pay off immediately”
- “infinite patience produces immediate results”
- “I love being an entrepreneur”
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